Category: Quote of the Day

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Discuss

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Discuss

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. Discuss

Life’s more amusing than we thought. Discuss

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst. Discuss

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Discuss

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. Discuss

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. Discuss

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Discuss

Death … goes faster than the wind, and he never brings back what he takes. Discuss